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Dudley sailing hull # 1 made from a set of plywood panels supplied by CKD Boats cc

Words below by the designer Dudley Dix @ www.dixdesign.com

The Paper Jet is designed primarily as a training boat, with the intention that it can cater for a wide range of sailing skills. I wanted a boat that will allow a club to race it as a class boat that will give exciting sailing to those who have the skills but will also allow less experienced sailors to develop their sailing skills in the same boat at a much lower level of performance. It is not suited for learning the most basic sailing principles single-handed. We recommend double-handed training until the student has enough expertise to sail single-handed. For single-handed training first learn the basics on a Sunfish or similar boat then move to the more performance oriented Paper Jet.

The same features that I designed into it for club use will allow a family to use one hull as the platform on which Dad can have his excitement of blasting across large expanses of water but junior can sail the same boat (if he can pry it loose from Dad's grip) with a smaller rig and at slower speed.

I did not try to produce a design that will sail the pants off any of the other skiffs or single-handers. It is fast and it is exciting to sail with the Turbo rig, but from the outset (this boat was in the back of my head for over 10 years) it was intended to provide an economical path for sailors to progress between boats like the Optimist and the costly single-handed skiffs without having to trade up their boat each time to go the next step. They can build a Paper Jet at the cheapest level or the level that they think that they can handle and progress from there. Meanwhile, as long as Dad is not out sailing, the kids can use the same boat at a more basic level. It makes sailing more viable for many families. With time and skill improvements they can move into more costly boats if they feel the need

This is soon to be the hotest new sport sail boat in South Africa, speeds of eighteen knots are possible!

This is CKD Boats kit #1 sent to Will in the Johannesburg area just before Christmas, he got busy right away and soon had his basic hull in place.

This is a large volume hull for a boat this size.

The owner builder is named Will, he had to work build systems out as he went along, the heat was an issue, by 9am it was 32c so epoxy and glass work was done in the evening when things had cooled down to 25c.

This really took Will very little time to build at all, he was pleased with the accuracy of our CNC cut panels and says it saved him a lot of time.

Pictures have just been made available to me that show how active the i550 sport racing sail boat has become in the USA, I note lots of females involved too, thats a great thing for any sport!

Picture credit will be posted when I know the name, Eric Rimkus supplied it

PDX #1 in
the background. FYI, if you don't know the story, the 5 boats we built
are a group build with us each getting a boat at the end by drawing lots.
We all worked together to build the boats so they are pretty much all
identical.

Hi Roy,

The North
American class association say it’s ok to use these pictures to publicise the
boat on your site. We just need to give the photographer credit if you decide
to use them (see email attached).

My thanks to Justin and Will for sorting out how to reduce original very large the picture files!Roy

Monday, 7 January 2013

Said to be a perfect boat to take on the Governors Cup Race fleet to St Helena island next December 2014, the owner and builder has less than two years to get to the start line!

This is a view of Hout Bay from 7500 feet up, taken by local sailor Tojan.

Why a repeat of this fine picture? well Google will not allow me to access my picture files on the PC and the first Retro 29 will be built in the village below.

St Helena Island is around 1740 nm ahead and on a magnetic bearing of 333 degrees on the yachts compass.

Time to get my own boat ready?

How good could that be!

Roy

The Dix Design Retro 29

http://www.dixdesign.com/29Retrodidi.htm

Words below from the boats designer Dudley Dix

This design was commissioned by a client
who likes the concept and features of theDIDI 26
but wanted a more classic appearance. He plans to build it himself in Hout Bay,
South Africa from a kit supplied by CKD
Boats.

Most of the boat is the same as the DIDI 26, with some obvious differences.

The springy
sheer curve was achieved by adding bulwarks that are 100mm (4") high in the bow
and taper down to normal toerail height for the length of the cockpit. This
gives safety for working the foredeck but allows crew to sit comfortably on the
rail at the cockpit.

News in from Will who is building South Africas first i550 sail boat.

The Sentinal, Hout Bays landmark on arrival, photographer unknown.

Ps.
Good news on the Retro 29, will be interesting to see how she turns out –
However, Billy Leisegang – the guy in charge of this years Governors Cup told
me the next Gov cup is only in 2016 due to airport construction – I wanted to
enter something too! Should be plenty of time…

This is our weather and in Hout Bay and South Africa, some 7000 miles south of Winchombe. The boat is a Didi 34 named Nandi and built by the owner Nick in around two years building time, Nick used a CNC cut kit from CKD Boats cc, we supplied the International Paint system too.

These are the basics of words from the Governors Cup Race organisers, as after a slow start and a stop at Luderitz, Namibia, Black Cat stormed off after the fleet and has now recorded a faster daily average since the restart than Banjo the winner of this years race.

Picture supplied by Dudley Dix and taken by Clive Dick.

Interesting commentary on Black cat….

Gooday All,

There are now 3 yachts reporting less the 50nm to the finish line at 0900 CAT this morning, 1st in should be the Norwegians on Maggie followed by either Patches or Tico-Tico.

Ocean Cloud (92nm) who’s tracker has not pinged since the 2nd of January should be at the Island later tonight with Silver Cloud (122nm) and Black Cat (148nm) probably crossing the finish line in the early hours of Monday morning.

What is really impressive is that Black Cat who detoured to Luderitz, and only resumed racing on Sunday 30th December 2012 will have covered the 1332nm from Luderitz to St. Helena in 8 days averaging a very respectable 167nm per day.

Banjo the ‘Line Honours’ winner averaged 166nm per day from Simon’s Town and the Governor’s Cup winner ‘Reaction‘ managed a 144nm average 24hour pace for the race. Perhaps the Crew from Black Cat will be the first entrant into the next Governor’s Cup because I’m certain they, like Tinus Groenewald from Reaction, will have some ‘unfinished business’ to avenge in 2014.

Weather out on the approaches to St. Helena Island: Wind SE 11 -18knts, Still pretty overcast with 8/8ths cloud cover and waves of between 1 – 1.5M.

This may mean my days as the blogger from CKD Boats cc are over? excepting Justin, the web master from the HBYC has seen a way into my picture files!

Many thanks Justin!

Sort of reminds me of the way Microsoft changes things, not always for the better, why change what worked just fine before!

Roy

Justin Phillips and Henry

Just for info, this is the
screen I see when I click the picture icon on blogger. Note the various options
under “Select a file”, and then a button the right called “Choose files”.
That’s the one that sees my PC files.

To include this screen in the
email, I pressed “Print-Screen” button when the screen was displayed, and then
Paste (or Ctrl-V) while in the email composition.

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Roy Mc Bride

working class trades person,broom sweeper and potato picker,apprentice Joiner,master carpenter,emigrant,shopfitter,interior designer,disco dj,race car builder and driver,engine rebuild specialist,boat designer and builder,traveled to twenty nine countries,married to a surfing families daughter,two great children, three grand children,two boys and one girl,Ben,Luke and Holly,sailed the South Atlantic three times,twice on my own yachts,founded a timber retail store,importer and exporter,cnc cut boat and car kit maker,working with the Hillman Imp and derivitives for 47 years,more or less in that order.yes,still crazy after all these years!